groundlogic

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by groundlogic 7y ago
The book "The Supermen: Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer" (1997) is great. What struck me when reading it was that the Cray 1 that Seymor Cray designed alone in his cabin.. when it went for
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Video Game Preservation – An archive of commercial video game source code(github.com)
213 points by groundlogic 7y ago|41 comments
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by groundlogic 7y ago
Exactly - relatively little technical depth.
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by groundlogic 7y ago
GOOG and FB also seemed overpriced a week after their respective IPOs.
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by groundlogic 7y ago
Yeah, from a citizen perspective I agree. C'est la vie. Our governments need to work against this via legislation. It should not be up to Matthew Prince to decide who to block. He has demonstrated his inability to function as censor in
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by groundlogic 7y ago
It's quite refreshing, right?
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by groundlogic 7y ago
Finally an IPO I want to buy into. Technical fundamentals matter. Edit: I mean that in the software/service way, not the economical way, in case there was any confusion.
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by groundlogic 7y ago
That's like a 2-4 year task, it seems.
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by groundlogic 7y ago
After working with people in Taiwan for the past two years: I love the creativity coming out of there. Compared to mainland China, people in Taiwan seem more eager to integrate with the world. Open source is popular in mainland China too, b
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by groundlogic 7y ago
This paper contains some pricing from mid 2018 (including Planet/Dove): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326417596_Benchmark...
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by groundlogic 7y ago
The switchboard room inside that building is also pretty fancy looking: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmänna_Telefonaktiebolagets_... Even more photos here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tekniska
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by groundlogic 7y ago
Sure, there are obviously visual warnings in real life, like that. Pretty sure that kind of thing is universal. I'm talking about something that would pop on the Waze display, like 20 seconds ahead of reaching the crossing.
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by groundlogic 7y ago
I could certainly imagine that if e.g. Waze warned about railroad crossings that it could prevent some small percentage of almost sleeping drivers/truckers getting hit. It's a numbers game. 999/1000 will be watching just fine
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by groundlogic 7y ago
I guess you primarily point, rather than type?
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by groundlogic 7y ago
I got RSI like 15 years ago. The only thing that's worked for me long term when I'm actually doing coding all day long, is a combination of: a) a keyboard holder below the desk - something similar to https://kw.pricenac
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by groundlogic 7y ago
http://lucidscience.com/pro-basic%20spy%20transmitter-1.aspx That takes me back.. that looks very similar to something I built out of an article in an electronics magazine article in ~1987. I do remember it had remarkably g
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by groundlogic 7y ago
Just noting: This isn't nearly enough money to stop North Korea, Israel, Russia, US, UK, France etc. Pretty sure a zero-day would be 10-100x more valuable to them than this $1 million reward. (Why is this even controversial?)
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by groundlogic 7y ago
"They advise everyone to close their windows and drink iodine, 44 drops per glass of water.
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by groundlogic 7y ago
They all probably had all of this already, via informal (jailbreak) means. Perhaps except the debugger... does anyone know what would add?
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by groundlogic 7y ago
The current Swedish government is centrist on money issues, and very leftist on cultural issues. The same goes for the public broadcasting.
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by groundlogic 7y ago
This seems like misdirection. Gitlab's largest problem is their record of operational incompetence. This will take some time to recover from. Personally, I won't use them for a least two more years, based on their data loss incide
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by groundlogic 7y ago
Danish public service bias to the left: ~ 0/5 Norwegian public service bias to the left: ~1/5 Swedish public service bias to the left: ~4/5
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by groundlogic 7y ago
Welcome to the 21st century, America! Jokes aside, I'm still amazed every time my monthly consulting fee arrives from Taiwan into my Swedish corporate banking account more or less instantly. This must surely be the same for e.g. Taiwan
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by groundlogic 7y ago
Swedish public service transitioned from a per-household fee (for households that held devices capable of showing RF broadcast TV) to a per citizen tax January 1st this year. Of course, they go to great lengths to avoid calling it a tax, bu
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by groundlogic 7y ago
> Perhaps they couldn't stop it Pretty sure they could, at least early on. Come on, they had absolute power over company strategy. The most important people (their smartest developers, like Jeff Dean etc, by all accounts, didn'
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by groundlogic 7y ago
...no? I think you maybe don't get the whole "don't be political at work" thing.
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by groundlogic 7y ago
I.. disagree. At least here in Sweden, the workplace was and is a neutral place when it comes to politics (basically, it's considered extremely impolite to push your private political view at work.). Is it different in the US?
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by groundlogic 7y ago
In hindsight.. it seems like it could become their downfall. It also seems so counter-productive for a company that basically controls large parts of the web traffic to become so politicized. What was Larry, Sergey and Eric thinking? Edit:
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by groundlogic 7y ago
12-20 years ago, one of my largest life goals was to work for Google. (It's not anymore. I found other fun and rewarding jobs.) I don't get why the Google management team allowed their team to get so... well, violently politicized
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by groundlogic 7y ago
The difference between Sweden and Germany in terms of RF spectrum license auctions has typically been: Sweden goes for "beauty auctions" - a balance between coverage and government revenue. Germany goes for government revenue alon

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